Veronica Ranner

Veronica Ranner is a designer, artist, and Assistant Professor of Product Design at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). Her research focuses on emerging (bio-)technologies, bio-design, bio-fabrication, systems design, and experimental, transdisciplinary approaches between design, science, and society. She is the founder of 'Polyphonic Futures' (2014), a growing design-science imagination laboratory that cross-connects experts with the public, and the participatory platform 'Design — Research — Making' (2017) for international and cross-institutional exchanges. Veronica received her German Diplom in Industrial Design from Pforzheim University and a MA Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, where she currently undertakes an AHRC-funded PhD. Before joining NTU in 2022, she worked for more than ten years on transdisciplinary projects across a range of leading scientific institutions, biomedical companies, agencies, museums, and universities, in roles such as Design Advisor at Cambridge University (UK) and Visiting Scientist at Tufts University in Boston (USA). Her work is frequently exhibited internationally, including at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Science Gallery in Dublin, the China Technology Museum in Beijing, the Biennale du Design in Saint-Etienne (France), the National Museum in Stockholm, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Marta Herford (Germany), the Design Museum Ghent (Belgium), the Centre de design de l'UQAM in Montreal (Canada) and the Futurium in Berlin.